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SMELTING WORKS – Port Colborne
[Welland Tribune, 7 October 1892]
The Toronto Chemical Company’s smelting works will positively be located here. That is a settled fact, and work will at once be begun to erect the necessary furnace, sulphuric chambers, etc. The new process by which the nickel ore will be treated has been experimented upon and found successful, and it now remains to be seen if the same success will attend smelting on a large scale. A thorough trial will be given, and if it pans out as its projectors believe it will, it will be a grand thing for the village of Port Colborne. We fervently hope that the results will exceed the most sanguine expectations of the company. In addition to the Messrs. Richardson and English of Toronto, who have been the most energetic pushers in this undertaking, the Messrs. Shepard (of the Toronto opera house and of the Georgian Bay Lumber company), Scott and others have an interest. The only local man who has taken stock in the enterprise is D. McGillivray of the Provincial Natural Gas company who believes the chances are good enough to warrant him in putting a good enough sum of money in it. The furnace, sulphuric chambers, etc., will cost considerable money, but the buildings will not be very extensive until success is assured. The factory will probably be located next to the Erie Glass company’s works. The capital stock of the Toronto Chemical company is $100,000, and it will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000 to give the smelting works a fair chance to prove whether or not they can be made to pay. Port Colborne may well congratulate itself on the new acquisition to her hive of industries.
